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Charles S. Clark

Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.

August 14, 2013
At a joint meeting this week of the two dozen agencies assigned to improve Americans’ health, a private-sector consultant with years of federal experience told participants that they are “great at admiring the problem.” But progress on the government’s major challenges will come only when more senior executives recognize the ...

August 13, 2013
Tighter agency budgets have forced small businesses to step up their efforts to win federal contracts, though overall bidding activity over the past five years has dropped, according to a survey by American Express OPEN. Though the companies surveyed -- many of them owned by women and minorities -- have ...

August 13, 2013
The State Department on Monday affirmed that it will continue working to meet House Republicans’ ongoing demands for documents relating to the agency’s handling of the September 2012 fatal attack on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya. In the latest request, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight ...

August 12, 2013
Davita Vance-Cooks, who will be sworn in as the next public printer on Aug. 21, has made no secret of her goals for maintaining the relevance of the Government Printing Office by embracing the digital revolution. The modern incarnation of the 152-year-old agency, as it works to phase out many ...

August 12, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service in recent days has faced criticism from a House committee chairman and from business owners quoted in a front-page Wall Street Journal story for letters sent to thousands of small businesses suggesting they might have underreported income. The complaints come at a time when the agency ...

August 9, 2013
The three-year-old National Declassification Center at the National Archives has plowed through 80 percent of a long-standing backlog of documents that are 25 years old or older, according to its seventh biannual report. Declassifiers are on schedule to meet a year-end deadline for fully determining which of some 357 million ...

August 9, 2013
Since the Internal Revenue Service scandal broke last May, Republican lawmakers have coveted hearing testimony from William Wilkins, the agency’s chief counsel and an Obama political appointee. Their appetites were further whetted after July interviews with mid-level IRS employees indicated that one reason for the now-notorious delays in an IRS ...

August 9, 2013
This August’s $1 billion question in Washington continues to be whether the government is heading for a shutdown. The conundrum embroils the two parties in internecine battles, pits spending priorities against political tactics and leaves the affected federal workforce to largely watch from the sidelines. Interviews with Washington insiders show ...

August 8, 2013
Rather than function like a “holding company” for a hundred entities, the federal government should reform its management structure to operate routinely as a single enterprise, according to a report released Thursday by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting firm. Four top officials from ...